Tham khảo tài liệu 'the goal of teachers', ngoại ngữ, kỹ năng viết tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | The goal of teachers who use the Communicative Approach is to have students become communicatively competent. the goal of teachers who use the Communicative Approach is to have students become communicatively competent. While this has been the stated goal of many of the other methods in the Communicative Approach the notion of what it takes to be communicatively competent is much expanded. State the reasons why you are for or against the above idea. The notion of communicative competence as expanded in the communicative approach In the English language teaching methods come and go but few can establish themselves firmly in the field. The Communicative Approach is one of those few exceptions it has gained much popularity since its advent in the late 1960s. Most of the value of this approach lies in the fact that it expands the notion of communicative competence in such a way that no other method is able to. First the Communicative Approach highlights the fact that understanding language functions is an important aspect of communicative competence. This can be clearly seen in the following comparison. The Direct Method the AudioLingual Method and the Communicative Approach are similar in that they all aim at teaching language for communication. However each of them has its own way to achieve its goal. While the Direct Method tries to establish a direct link between the target language and meaning by immersing students in a rich sample of the structural and lexical items being taught and the .